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Companies: Best Movies & TV Shows/Series by British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927. The oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by stature and by number of employees, the BBC employs over 21,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 17,900 are in public-sector broadcasting. The BBC was established under a royal charter, and operates under an agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts or to use the BBC's streaming service, iPlayer. The fee is set by the British Government, agreed by Parliament, and is used to fund the BBC's radio, TV, and online services covering the nations and regions of the UK. Since 1 April 2014, it has also funded the BBC World Service (launched in 1932 as the BBC Empire Service), which broadcasts in 28 languages and provides comprehensive TV, radio, and online services in Arabic and Persian. Some of the BBC's re... ()

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Top of the Pops(1964-2006)

40min per episode | Reality-TV
3.5/5 (with 10 votes)

The biggest stars, the most iconic performances, the most outrageous outfits – it’s Britain’s number one pop show.

Directed by Stanley Dorfman, Johnnie Stewart

Celebrity Big Brother(2001-)

1h per episode | Reality-TV
2.4/5 (with 16 votes)

Celebrity Big Brother is a British reality television game show in which a number of celebrity contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize being donated to the winner's nominated charity at the end of the run.

Midsomer Murders(1997-)

TV-14
| 1h 30min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 135 votes)

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

Have I Got News for You(1990-)

NR
| 30min per episode | Comedy, News
3.6/5 (with 27 votes)

Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs.

That's Life!(1973-1994)

1h per episode | Documentary, Comedy, Kids & Family, News
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A magazine-style television series on BBC1 which was broadcast from May 1973 to June 1994, presented by Esther Rantzen, with various changes of co-presenters. The show presented hard-hitting investigations alongside satire and occasional light entertainment.

Death in Paradise(2011-)

TV-14
| 1h per episode | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 112 votes)

A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.

Call the Midwife(2012-)

TV-MA
| 52min per episode | Drama, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 97 votes)

Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

Last of the Summer Wine(1973-2010)

TV-14
| 30min per episode | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 17 votes)

Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures not usually favored by the elderly. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973. The show ran for 295 episodes until 2010. It is the longest running comedy Britain has produced and the longest running sitcom in the world.

The Sooty Show(1955-1992)

15min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

The Sooty Show is a British children's Puppet series which aired on the BBC from 1955 to 1967 and ITV from 1968 to 1992. It follows the adventures and comedic day to day life of puppets Sooty, Sweep and Soo with their owner Harry Corbett, and in later years, his son Matthew.

Doctor Who(1963-1989)

4.0/5 (with 279 votes)

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

Birds of a Feather(1989-2016)

30min per episode | Comedy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 11 votes)

Birds of a Feather is a British sitcom that was broadcast on BBC One from 1989 until 1998 and on ITV from 2013. Starring Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph, it was created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, who also wrote some of the episodes along with many other writers. The first episode sees sisters Tracey Stubbs and Sharon Theodopolopodos brought together when their husbands are sent to prison for armed robbery. Sharon, who lived in an Edmonton council flat, moves into Tracey's expensive house in Chigwell, Essex. Their next-door neighbour, and later friend, Dorien Green is a middle-aged married woman who is constantly having affairs with younger men. In the later series the location is changed to Hainault. The series ended on Christmas Eve 1998 after a 9-year-run.

Rome(2005-2007)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama
4.1/5 (with 575 votes)

A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.

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Doctor Who Confidential(2005-2011)

30min per episode | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 16 votes)

Doctor Who Confidential is a documentary series created by the British Broadcasting Corporation to complement the revival of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Each episode was broadcast on BBC Three on Saturdays, immediately after the broadcast of the weekly television episode on BBC One. The running time of the first two series was 30 minutes, being extended to 45 minutes in the third. BBC Three also broadcast a cut-down edition of the programme, lasting 15 minutes, shown after the repeats on Sundays and Fridays and after the weekday evening repeats of earlier seasons. Described as focusing on the human element of the series, Confidential features behind-the-scenes footage on the making of Doctor Who through clips and interviews with the cast, production crew and other people, including those who have participated in the television series over the years of its existence. Each episode deals with a different topic, and in most cases refers to the Doctor Who episode that preceded it. There have also been two episodes of Doctor Who Confidential broadcast apart from the showing of Doctor Who episodes: in November 2006 an edition subtitled "Music and Monsters" was produced going behind the scenes of a televised concert of soundtrack music produced as part of that year's Children in Need appeal, and on 3 January 2009, a special edition was broadcast to announce the actor chosen to play the Eleventh Doctor.

All Creatures Great and Small(1978-1990)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Comedy, Drama
3.9/5 (with 18 votes)

All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot. Ninety episodes were aired over two three-year runs. The first run was based directly on Herriot's books; the second was filmed with original scripts.

Monty Python's Flying Circus(1969-1974)

TV-14
| 30min per episode | Comedy
4.1/5 (with 286 votes)

A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.

The Old Grey Whistle Test(1971-1987)

1h per episode
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The Old Grey Whistle Test is an influential BBC2 television music show that ran from 1971 to 1987. It took over the BBC2 late night slot from "Disco Two", which had been running since January 1970, while continuing to feature non-chart music. It was devised by BBC producer Rowan Ayers. According to presenter Bob Harris, the programme derived its name from a Tin Pan Alley phrase from years before. When they got the first pressing of a record they would play it to people they called the old greys—doormen in grey suits. The songs they could remember and whistle, having heard it just once or twice, had passed the old grey whistle test.

Inside No. 9(2014-)

TV-MA
| 29min per episode | Comedy, Mystery
4.0/5 (with 92 votes)

An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.

Only Fools and Horses(1981-1991)

30min per episode | Comedy
4.0/5 (with 123 votes)

The misadventures of two wheeler dealer brothers Del Boy and Rodney Trotter of 'Trotters Independent Traders PLC' who scrape their living by selling dodgy goods believing that next year they will be millionaires.

Raa Raa the Noisy Lion(2011-)

TV-Y
| 10min per episode | Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy

Raa Raa and his friends solve noisy mysteries, go on adventures and have lots of fun while mastering language and communication skills. Based in the Jingly Jangly Jungle, each episode follows Raa Raa and his wonderful gang of friends; Topsy the giraffe, Huffty the elephant, Crocky the crocodile, Zebby the Zebra and Ooo Ooo the cheeky little monkey.

Panorama(1953-)

TV-PG
| 30min per episode | Documentary, News
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects.

Blake's 7(1978-1981)

50min per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 18 votes)

A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.

With Gareth Thomas, Michael Keating, Sally Knyvette, Paul Darrow, David Jackson, Peter Tuddenham, ...

Spooks(2002-2011)

1h per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime
3.8/5 (with 56 votes)

Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.

Secret Army(1977-1979)

50min per episode | Drama, War & Politics
3.8/5 (with 5 votes)

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.

Father Brown(2013-)

TV-14
| 45min per episode | Drama, Crime, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 49 votes)

Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

With Mark Williams, Sorcha Cusack, Jennie Jacques

The Morecambe & Wise Show(1961-1983)

50min per episode | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

The Morecambe & Wise Show is the third TV series by English comedy double-act Morecambe and Wise. It began airing in 1968 on BBC2, specifically because it was then the only channel broadcasting in colour, following the duo's move to the BBC from ATV, where they had made Two of a Kind since 1961. The series was popular enough to be moved to BBC1, with its Christmas specials garnering prime-time audiences in excess of 20 million, some of the largest in British television history. After their 1977 Christmas special, retaining its title, the show moved over to ITV.

With Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise

Luther(2010-2019)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.9/5 (with 474 votes)

A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.

Top Gear(2002-)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Talk-Show, Action & Adventure, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 339 votes)

This fast-paced and stunt-filled motor show tests whether cars, both mundane and extraordinary, live up to their manufacturers' claims. The long-running show travels to locations around the world, performing extreme stunts and challenges to see what the featured cars are capable of doing. The current hosts are Paddy Mcguinness, Chris Harris and Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff.

Casualty(1986-)

TV-PG
| 50min per episode | Drama
2.9/5 (with 36 votes)

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

With Alex Walkinshaw, Amanda Mealing, Gregory Forsyth-Foreman, Derek Thompson, William Beck, Michael Stevenson, ...

Lark Rise to Candleford(2008-2011)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Drama
4.2/5 (with 13 votes)

Set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry at the end of the 19th Century. Lark Rise to Candleford is a love letter to a vanished corner of rural England and a heart-warming drama series teeming with wit, wisdom and romance.

Silent Witness(1996-)

TV-14
| 1h per episode | Crime, Drama
3.8/5 (with 40 votes)

Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.

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